The film started principal photography in Victoria, Australia in February 2023, with Crowe making himself at home in Melbourne. In February 2023 Karen Gillan, Marton Csokas, Harry Greenwood and Thomas M Wright were added to the cast. In November 2022 it was announced that Highland Film Group had agreed distribution deals with Signature Entertainment in the UK and Rialto Distribution for Australia and New Zealand, amongst other deals. In August 2022 Crowe was announced in the lead role. Matthew Goldberg, Cliff Roberts and Highland Film Group CEO Arianne Fraser are executive producers. Mark Fasano of Nickel City Pictures is producer, alongside Cooper, Collage and Pouya Shabazian of New Leaf Literary. Chirovici’s critically acclaimed novel, The Book of Mirrors with Cooper also on-board as director. The project is an adaptation by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage of E.O. The film marks Adam Cooper’s feature length directorial debut.Ī former homicide detective Roy Freeman (Crowe) is being treated for Alzheimer’s Disease but is forced to re-open an old case involving the murder of a college professor (Csokas) when new light comes from a mysterious woman (Gillan). Chirovici novel The Book of Mirrors (2017) which was adapted by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage and produced by Nickel City Pictures. Raging Fire is currently in theaters.Sleeping Dogs is an upcoming film starring Russell Crowe and Karen Gillan. But let me just focus on getting this film made first."Ĭheck out exactly what Yen told us in the player above and look for our full interview with him soon. I can visualize the whole look of this film. Because it's like, I don't want to lose my fire, this raging fire, I still have a bit, that we still have with Sleeping Dogs. "I have different conversations with so many peoples involved, to a point where, let me just get this movie going first. On the subject of possibly turning the film into a franchise, Yen continued: "Most likely," he said, "we're probably gonna' make more of a modern, updated version of Sleeping Dogs." Yen notes that he does have the filmmaking rights to Sleeping Dogs, and that the current conversations-which he told us has been a few years of "talking and talking and talking"-are centered around whether to directly adapt the game or simply take elements of it to make an original story. Kind of like Raging Fire, but even more edgier because I'm playing an undercover. This could be a perfect contemporary action world that I could do.' And it already has a fan base, right? It's Infernal Affairs. When I look at this material, I said, 'Wow. Steads novel Smiths Dream, Sleeping Dogs almost single-handedly kickstarted the New Zealand New Wave, demonstrating that homegrown feature films could. I want to go back to.contemporary action. They pretty much borrowed some of my actions, and even the image.Īnd I said, 'Oh, that could be a fun vehicle.' Because like I said, I was caught in that 12, 13 years of the Ip Man image. 'Hey, there's some of my moves.' And then I did some research, and I found some article saying that.the people who created this game, created a world, they're fans of mine. This game is perfect." e showed me the cover, and the guy actually looked a little like what I did in my other films, right? And I looked at some of the clips, the way they fight. We all make them, shitty films, right? I made a film called The Iceman, a few years ago, right? One of the producers came to me and said, "Oh, you know, Donnie, I saw this game.
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